Re: [PATCH] block: correctly fallback for zeroout

From	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] block: correctly fallback for zeroout
Date	2016-06-03 05:10 +0200
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>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writes:

Christoph> As part of that I also removed the strange EOPNOTSUPP ignore,
Christoph> but Mike reverted it just because it changed something in the
Christoph> dm testsuite.

Mike?

Christoph> I still believe we should never ignore it in this helper, and
Christoph> only do so in callers that believe it's the right thing.

Yeah.

I really wish EOPNOTSUPP would just go away except for ioctl callers.
Now that we have real bi_error I don't understand why we need it.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

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Re: [PATCH] block: correctly fallback for zeroout "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2016-06-03 05:10 +0200
  Re: block: correctly fallback for zeroout Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> - 2016-06-03 06:00 +0200
    Re: block: correctly fallback for zeroout "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2016-06-07 04:40 +0200
      Re: block: correctly fallback for zeroout Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-06-07 08:40 +0200
        Re: block: correctly fallback for zeroout "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2016-06-10 04:10 +0200

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